…the ancient burial pyramid of Caius Cestius built circa 8-12BC originally located in the open countryside and later integrated into the expanded Roman fortifications of the Aurelian Walls ensuring is preservation through the ages – is what I was biking around today, taking advantage of the warm sun and blue sky, and what a cool, ..
Category : architecture
…is just below me, on Gianicolo hill, with a commanding view of the city, made with stone and marble taken from the ancient Forum of Nerva and granite columns from the original St. Peter’s Basilica, commissioned by Pope Paolo V Borghese (1605-1621), marking the terminus of the Roman aqueduct Acqua Traiana and still receiving it’s ..
…or EUR, originally known as E42, the vast development south of Rome initiated by Benito Mussolini in 1935 designed by a collaborative of Italian architects is where we went today in search of some adventures in fascist Roman architecture – which first fascinated me (to the horror of my Italian classmates and teaching assistants) while ..
…was really the only highlight for me this year – part of Archizoom, co-founder of the Domus Academy, provocative thinker, writer, philosopher, designer, activist and architect in the broadest sense, and in a way that just does not exist anymore, and perhaps only ever really emerged in Italy during a short post-war golden age of ..
…which always gives me pleasure to pass on my way home – is the cutest piazza in Rome, a tiny space with a forced perspective that leads the eye up to the diminutive facade of S. Barbara e S. Tommaso d’Aquina dei Librai built on the location of the Ancient Roman Theater ..
a great quote by architect Vittorio Gregotti shown during a conference presentation at the Swiss Institute ….was the title of this weekend’s conference produced by the Depart Foundation at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma – which was of special interest to me since I studied architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia from ..
…was the highlight of a quick visit a few steps down the hill to our Spanish neighbors at the Real Academia de Espana en Roma for a tour of the academy and San Pietro in Montorio which marks the supposed location of St. Peter’s cr..
…is the Italian Fascist architect (1903 – 1963) who designed the Via Marmolata post office I passed on my evening walk through Testaccio (which is becoming my favorite part of town), and who was also responsible for the great Casa Malparte in Capri which I had the pleasure of visiting on an adventure in my ..
…formed by a Baroque confection of buildings designed by Filippo Raguzzini from 1727-1728, is one of my favorite outdoor spaces in Rome – and my best experiences of it are always unplanned surprises, where I just happen upon it – which is what happened today. (check out this awesome 360 degree view – and more ..
…from my studio desk is remarkable – being the dominant structure on the landscape out my Northeast facin..
…is what we walk past on our way to Willard Pond, and every time I see it I think that this is how I want to live when I grow..
…the great radical ecologically minded architect and artist of SITE has been a hero of mine since I first picked up his books as an architecture obsessed youth at my local public library, and this evening I was actually able to meet and hang out with him as we both participated in the conversation at ..
…opened a few days ago on a rooftop overlooking the construction site of London’s Olympic Park… Bistrotheque‘s Studio East Dining, 16 JUNE – 4 JULY 2010, London’s most amazing rooftop dining experience; Bistrotheque opens a 3 week temporary dining room, and pavilion designed by Carmody Groarke, perched 35m atop Westfield Stratford City’s 1.9 million sq ..
…at the Four Seasons is tonight, to officially announce the project for the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House, and the various pieces contributed by artists and architects, including my embroidered pillowcases that pay tribute to Edith & Ludwig, and David & Philip. (more information on the Glass House ..
…came over for lunch today, we met ages ago when he first moved to L.A. in 2003, and I’ll be seeing lots more of him while we are in residence at the American Academy in Rome for a year starting this fall (Radical Craft..
…is over at the dome tonight for a dinner party with some friends to mark his arrival to L.A. for a MAK Center Residency – he’ll be at work on a special Los Angeles issue of his “magazine for architectural entertainment” (one of the best new magazine to come out in the past few years ..
…died in a car accident in downtown L.A. at the age of 76 after giving a riveting lecture to local architecture students – I was always so inspired by his pencil renderings while in architecture school. (n..
…planned for P.S. 216 by Work AC is featured in a story today in Metropolis Magazine’s website including an interview with architects Amale Andaos and..
…is on the cover of this months German magazine Architektur & Wohnen which I am surprised to receive in the mail today, since I didn’t know anything about it – and this coming after almost six years since I first started work on the design in March 2004. (project page /..
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